<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Aren't the ralink drivers supplied as modules with a name beginning rt* ? If so the command lsmod should show whether or not it has been loaded. If not insmod is the command to load it. Type man lsmod to find out more.<br><br>David<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> David Spencer <d@daves-collective.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 3 November, 2008 16:57:11<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] Install a wireless
device on linux machine<br></font><br>From a bit of googling, it looks like it's an ralink chip of some sort.<br>The rt2x00 drivers have been in-kernel since 2.6.24, but the USB id may<br>be new and/or Ubuntu may not have enabled them until later than 8.04.<br>The obvious advice is to upgrade to 8.10, particularly as there's a<br>comment on the play.com forum that it 'just works' in the 'latest'<br>Ubuntu (why are these damn lusers never *specific*?). But the advice to<br>upgrade will probably go down like a bucket of cold sick on this mailing<br>list. Oh well.<br><br>-D.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bradford mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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